CfP: COIN @ MALLOW 2010
George Vouros
georgev at aegean.gr
Fr Mai 21 10:20:57 CEST 2010
Apologies for cross-postings.
Please find the CfP attached in PDF, as well.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
11th International Workshop on
Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Multi-Agent
Systems (COIN at MALLOW2010)
Domaine Valpré in Lyon, France 30th August – 2nd September, 2010
AIMS and SCOPE
The development of complex AI systems with heterogeneous and diverse
knowledge is a challenge. System components must interact, coordinate
and collaborate to manage scale and complexity of task environments
targeting persistency and maybe, evolution of systems.
Managing scale and complexity requires organized intelligence; in
particular intelligence manifested in organizations of agents, by
individual strategies or collective behaviour. System architects have
to consider: the inter-operation of heterogeneously designed,
developed or discovered components (agents, objects/artefacts,
services provided in an open environment); inter-connection which
cross legal, temporal, or organizational boundaries; the absence of
global objects or centralised controllers; the possibility that
components will not comply with the given specifications; and
embedding in an environment which is likely to change, with possible
impact on individual and collective objectives.
The convergence of the requirement for intelligence with these
operational constraints demands: coordination: the collective ability
of heterogeneous and autonomous components to arrange or synchronise
the performance of specified actions in sequential or temporal order;
rational and open organization: a formal structure supporting or
producing intentional forms of coordination, capable of managing
changes in the environment in which it operates; institution: an
organization where (inter alia) the performance of designated actions
by empowered agents produces conventional outcomes; and norms:
standards or patterns of behaviour in an institution established by
decree, agreement, emergence, and so on.
The automation and distribution of intelligence is the subject of
study in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems; the automation and
distribution of intelligence for coordination, organization,
institutions and norms is the specialised interest of COIN at MALLOW2010.
The COIN at MALLOW 2010 workshop is part of the COIN series of workshops.
WORKSHOP GOALS
The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers in
autonomous agents and multi-agent systems and other related fields
(like web services, semantic web and service oriented architectures),
working on the scientific and technological aspects of organizational
theory, electronic institutions, norms and computational economies
from an organizational or institutional perspective. We seek to
attract high-quality papers addressing all mathematical, logical and
computational perspectives of, modelling, animation and simulation
techniques for these types of multi-agent systems, addressing also
their actual implementation.
Through various information and opinion exchange mechanisms before,
during and after the workshop, we hope to generate new ideas,
consolidate and develop an (already) active community, highlight
future challenges and opportunities, and lead/define (at least part
of) the future research agenda.
TOPICS
Topics of particular interest for COIN at MALLOW2010 will include:
Organizations, institutions and norms for managing scale, openness and
complexity
Organizations, institutions and norms and Service Oriented Computing/
Architectures;
Logics, languages and tools for specifying coordination and norms,
implementing or simulating organizations and institutions;
Formal lifecycle models: formation, maintenance, and dissolution of
organizations and institutions;
Laws in electronic institutions: regulatory compliance, penalty and
sanctions, dispute resolution and conflict prevention;
Agent environments: physical and institutional 'resources' for
physical capability and institutional power;
Formal methods for specifying coordination and organizational
structures; models for verification, validation and visualisation;
Non-normative behaviour, error-recovery, and reliable computing with
unreliable components;
Frameworks and protocols for organised and organisational adaptation;
Discovery, openness and inter-operation in organizations and
institutions;
Analysis of issues in the emergence, evaluation (as fit-for-purpose),
compliance to and evolution of norms;
Mixed human-agent coordination and institutions in embedded systems
and virtual worlds.
VENUE
The workshop will be part of the MALLOW2010 (Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems) workshop programme, and will take place at
Domaine Valpré in Lyon, France. Full details about the organization of
MALLOW2010 are available at http://mallow2010.emse.fr/index.html.
PROCEEDINGS
Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. As with
previous COIN workshops, revised and extended versions of papers
presented in the COIN workshops within 2010 (this one and
COIN at AAMAS2010 ) will be published in a single Springer LNCS volume.
The revised versions must take into account the discussion held during
the workshop, hence, only those papers that are presented during the
workshop will be considered for inclusion in the post-proceedings
volume.
IMPORTANT DATES
June 13, 2010: Submission of Papers
July 08, 2010: Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection
July 30, 2010: Submission of Camera-Ready Copies
30 Aug – 02 Sept 2010: Workshop Takes Place
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Given that the post-proceedings will be published in Springer LNC the
papers should be formatted following Springer-Verlag's guidelines,
available here. The length of each paper including figures and
references should not exceed 16 pages. All papers must be written in
English and submitted in PDF format. Submission of a paper should be
regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at
least one of the authors will attend the workshop to present the work.
For submission of papers, please use: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coinmallow2010
WORKSHOP OFFICIALS
Workshop Chairs: Nicoletta Fornara (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
George Vouros (University of the Aegean, Greece)
Tentative Programme Committee: Alexander Artikis (National Centre for
Scientific Research Demokritos, Greece) Guido Boella (University of
Torino, Italy) Olivier Boissier (ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France)
Rafael Bordini (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Amit
Chopra (University of Trento, Italy) Stephen Cranefield (University of
Otago, New Zealand)
Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
FURG, Brazil)
Marina De Vos (University of Bath, UK) Virginia Dignum (Delft
University of Technology, The Netherlands) Jomi Fred Hubner (Federal
University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Christian Lemaitre (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
Henrique Lopes Cardoso (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Eric Matson
(Purdue, USA) John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Pablo Noriega (IIIA-CSI, Spain) Eugenio Oliveira (Universidade do
Porto, Portugal)
Sascha Ossowski (URJC, Spain) Julian Padget (University of Bath, UK)
Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College, London)
Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar (IIIA-CSIC, Spain) Jaime Sichman
(University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA Kostas Stathis
(Royal Holloway, University of London)
Viviane Torres da Silva (Universidade Federal Fluminente, Brazil)
Paolo Torroni (University of Bologna, Italy)
Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Birna van Riemsdijk (Delf University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK) Javier Vazquez-
Salceda (University Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Pinar Yolum, Bogazici University, Turkey
Coin Steering Committee: Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy)
Olivier Boissier (ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France) Nicoletta Fornara
(University of Lugano, Switzerland) Christian Lemaitre (Universidad
Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico) Eric Matson (Purdue University, USA)
Pablo Noriega (Artficial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain)
Sascha Ossowski (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Julian Padget
(University of Bath, UK) Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College London, UK)
Jaime Sichman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Wamberto Vasconcelos
(University of Aberdeen, UK) Javier Vázquez Salceda (Universitat
Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) George Vouros (University of the
Aegean, Greece)
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George Vouros
Professor, Univ. of the Aegean
Dean of School of Sciences
Head AI-Lab
President of the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society
Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering
Karlovassi, Samos 83200, Greece
Phone: +30 2273 0 82226
Fax: +30 2273 0 82229
URL: http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/lecturers/georgev/
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